From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: cpaasch@apple.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] tcp md5sig: Use skb's saddr when replying to an incoming segment
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 11:21:19 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171212.112119.160806066229814761.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171211080546.89418-1-cpaasch@apple.com>
From: Christoph Paasch <cpaasch@apple.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 00:05:46 -0800
> The MD5-key that belongs to a connection is identified by the peer's
> IP-address. When we are in tcp_v4(6)_reqsk_send_ack(), we are replying
> to an incoming segment from tcp_check_req() that failed the seq-number
> checks.
>
> Thus, to find the correct key, we need to use the skb's saddr and not
> the daddr.
>
> This bug seems to have been there since quite a while, but probably got
> unnoticed because the consequences are not catastrophic. We will call
> tcp_v4_reqsk_send_ack only to send a challenge-ACK back to the peer,
> thus the connection doesn't really fail.
>
> Fixes: 9501f9722922 ("tcp md5sig: Let the caller pass appropriate key for tcp_v{4,6}_do_calc_md5_hash().")
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Paasch <cpaasch@apple.com>
Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-12 16:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-11 8:05 [PATCH net] tcp md5sig: Use skb's saddr when replying to an incoming segment Christoph Paasch
2017-12-12 4:51 ` Eric Dumazet
2017-12-12 16:21 ` David Miller [this message]
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